Have you ever looked at the end of a long day and realized you managed to take care of just about everything—and everyone—except yourself?
There are errands to run, emails to answer, appointments to remember, people who need us, and that one thing sitting on the kitchen counter that we have walked past at least six times. Read more
Have you ever finally sat down to do something just for yourself—and almost immediately started thinking about everything else you should be doing?
Maybe there’s laundry waiting. Someone needs a phone call. There’s an email you haven’t answered. Dinner needs to be figured out. And suddenly, the quiet hour you planned for yourself begins to feel less like self-care and more like something you need to justify. Read more
Have you ever made a mistake and replayed it in your head far longer than the mistake itself lasted?
Maybe you said something you wish you could take back. You missed a deadline. You didn’t handle a situation as well as you wanted. Or perhaps you simply looked at everything you thought you should have accomplished and decided you hadn’t done enough. Read more
Have you ever noticed how easy it is to offer kindness to someone else—and how much harder it can be to offer that same kindness to yourself?
We encourage a friend who is having a difficult day. We tell our daughters, sisters, coworkers, and girlfriends not to be so hard on themselves. We remind the women we love that they’re doing the best they can. Read more
Loving yourself is about self-acceptance, but it reaches far beyond that too. It’s a deliberate act of kindness you extend to yourself in a way that you’d extend to others. If you find that it’s far too easy to be kinder to others than you are to yourself, you are long overdo in acts of self-love. Read more
We have a culture that tells little girls they are ornaments and their worth lies in how good they look. This is fed by the media.
Our media consistently shows women who are flawless because their photos have been altered in one way or another. Read more
